I am an evil giraffe. Who no longer blogs about politics.

At least, that’s the impression that one gets from the fairly unambiguous picture found below:

Obama’s procrastination kills us: We miss Bush’s audacity. The world is better with America’s RepublicansOccuped Kafranbel 16 12 2011
Kafranbel is a town in northern Syria which has been one of the centers of peaceful protests for most of 2011; and the photo looks legitimate. It’s often the custom to immediately assume a photo’s been altered – and for good reason – but check out the images below:

So I think that it’s fairly safe to say that this is a real sign, and that it represents a real attitude among Syrian dissidents and rebels. And that’s not really surprising, either. Say what you like about President George W Bush, but when it came to smiting the forces of evil he had a very laudable tendency to hit hard, hit often, and leave impact craters behind. It would appear that that these tendencies are better appreciated by people being shot at by regime thugs than they are by American and European antiwar liberals.

Even if all of this is merely an inspired propaganda campaign designed to target American sensibilities, if that sign doesn’t embarrass you at least a little then I really don’t know what to say to you.

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It embarrasses the hell out of me. I mean, we interfeared in Libya, why not Syria? Obama’s foreign policy makes no sense, unless we factor Iran in the picture. Then it makes a whole lot of sense. Because, you know, Obama doesn’t want to upset his friend Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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And that wasn’t a Freudian Slip either.